Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: A Quality-Improvement Initiative

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1 QUALITY REPORT Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: A Quality-Improvement Initiative AUTHORS: Katherine Finn Davis, RN, PhD, a,b Ann M. Colebaugh, RN, MSN, CPN, b Benjamin L. Eithun, RN, MSN, CRNP, b Sarah B. Klieger, MPH, c Dennis J. Meredith, DVM, CIC, d Natalie Plachter, CRNP, b Julia Shaklee Sammons, MD, MSCE, b,c,d,e Allison Thompson, MSN, RD, RN, CCRN, CRNP, b and Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH b,c,d,e d Department of Infection Prevention and Control and c Division of Infectious Diseases, a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; b Department of Nursing, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and e Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania KEY WORDS catheter-associated urinary tract infection, child, epidemiology, health care associated infection, quality improvement ABBREVIATIONS CAUTI catheter-associated urinary tract infection CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CHOP The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement IP infection preventionist NHSN National Healthcare Safety Network PDSA Plan, Do, Study, Act QI quality improvement Dr Davis, Ms Colebaugh, Mr Eithun, Ms Klieger, Mr Meredith, Ms Plachter, Dr Sammons, Ms Thompson, and Dr Coffin each contributed to the conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; each author participated in drafting and revising the article critically for intellectual content and approved the final version of this revised manuscript. All authors participated in regular meetings to produce the manuscript. doi: /peds Accepted for publication Apr 9, 2014 Address correspondence to Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, North Campus, 3535 Market St, Room 1579, Philadelphia, PA coffin@ .chop. edu PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, ; Online, ). Copyright 2014 by the American Academy of Pediatrics FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose. FUNDING: Supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EpiCenters Program (U54-CK000163; to Dr Coffin). POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. abstract BACKGROUND: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are among the most common health care associated infections in the United States, yet little is known about the prevention and epidemiology of pediatric CAUTIs. METHODS: An observational study was conducted to assess the impact of a CAUTI quality improvement prevention bundle that included institution-wide standardization of and training on urinary catheter insertion and maintenance practices, daily review of catheter necessity, and rapid review of all CAUTIs. Poisson regression was used to determine the impact of the bundle on CAUTI rates. A retrospective cohort study was performed to describe the epidemiology of incident pediatric CAUTIs at a tertiary care children s hospital over a 3-year period (June 2009 to June 2012). RESULTS: Implementation of the CAUTI prevention bundle was associated with a 50% reduction in the mean monthly CAUTI rate (95% confidence interval: to 20.12; P =.02) from 5.41 to 2.49 per 1000 catheter-days. The median monthly catheter utilization ratio remained unchanged; 90% of patients had an indication for urinary catheterization. Forty-four patients experienced 57 CAUTIs over the study period. Most patients with CAUTIs were female (75%), received care in the pediatric or cardiac ICUs (70%), and had at least 1 complex chronic condition (98%). Nearly 90% of patients who developed a CAUTI had a recognized indication for initial catheter placement. CONCLUSIONS: CAUTI is a common pediatric health care associated infection. Implementation of a prevention bundle can significantly reduce CAUTI rates in children. Pediatrics 2014;134:e857 e864 PEDIATRICS Volume 134, Number 3, September 2014 e857

2 Health care associated infections are common complications among hospitalized patients in the United States. 1,2 In adults, the urinary tract is the most common site of infection and accounts for 40% of all reported health care associated infections, the majority of which are catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). 2 Adults with CAUTI are at risk of serious sequelae, including pyelonephritis, bacteremia, and meningitis. 3 In addition, CAUTI has been associated with poor outcomes among hospitalized patients, including increased length of stay, higher hospital costs, and death. 4,5 Annually, CAUTI is associated with up to deaths 1 and $450 million of direct health care costs in the United States. 6 However, little is known about the complications and costs associated with pediatric CAUTI. Although research and quality improvement (QI) efforts have yielded valuable information about effective strategies to prevent adult CAUTI, 7,8 much less is known about the epidemiology and prevention of CAUTI in children. A point prevalence survey conducted in 1999 by the Pediatric Prevention Network found the multicenter rate of pediatric CAUTI in PICUs to be 13.3 infections per 1000 urinary catheter-days. 9 A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC s) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) revealed that the pooled mean rates of CAUTI were similar in adult and PICUs in National guidelines for CAUTI prevention published by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), CDC, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America are based largely on data from adult studies. 7,8 Two pediatric facilities recently reported CAUTI reductions associated with a hospital-wide initiative to eliminate serious harm 10 and a PICU initiative to reduce device-associated infections. 11 Recognizing that 65% to 70% of CAUTIs are considered preventable, 12 we initiated a hospital-wide CAUTI prevention effort in July of At that time, our hospital s overall CAUTI rate was significantly higher than the national pooled mean for PICUs (5.4 vs 2.2 infections per 1000 catheter-days). Our goal was to reduce our hospital-wide CAUTI rate by at least 50% within 1 year by implementing an evidence-based bundle of practices based on adult CAUTI prevention strategies. Below, we describe our QI project to develop and implement a CAUTI prevention bundle, compare the hospital-wide CAUTI rates before and after implementation of our multifaceted intervention, and describe the epidemiology of pediatric CAUTI at our center. METHODS Study Designs, Setting, and Population We conducted 2 observational studies by using data from July 2009 to June First, we performed an observational, retrospective analysis to assess changes in infection rates before and after a multidisciplinary QI project was initiated (July 2010) to reduce the rate of pediatric CAUTI throughout the institution, a 500-bed tertiary care children s hospitalwhere 40% of beds are in ICUs. We also performed a retrospective analysis of CAUTI at our hospital during the same 3-year period. We conducted house-wide surveillance for CAUTI in accordance with state regulations with the use of NHSN definitions for symptomatic urinary tract infection throughout this period; episodes of asymptomatic bacteruria were not included. 10 Because our CAUTI surveillance and QI efforts targeted all units within the hospital, patients.18 years of age were included in this analysis. The Institutional Review Board at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) reviewed and approved this study. This article was prepared in accordance with the SQUIRE (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines. 13 Prevent CAUTI QI Plan The Prevent CAUTI leadership team was formed in July 2010 and consisted of stakeholders with complementary expertise and spheres of influence (Table 1) in response to the recognized gap between our institution s performance and that of other pediatric institutions. Senior hospital leaders sponsored this initiative after recognizing an opportunity to build on other improvement work being done at CHOP to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections and ventilatorassociated pneumonia. The Prevent CAUTI project was a component of a newly initiated hospital-wide effort to adopt a pervasive culture of safety in which all members of the hospital community (including nonclinical support staff, frontline clinicians, and administrators) were expected to prioritize local and institution-wide safety. Each member of the Prevent CAUTI team agreed to take ownership for the initiative and to assume accountability for the institution s ability to achieve both desired outcomes and sustainable results. The team also had responsibility for establishing the scope and direction of the project. Inanefforttoeffectrapidchange, theteam met weekly and created a driver diagram (Fig 1), set goals, developed and implemented an education plan, monitored progress, and addressed any identified or perceived barriers to success. The CHOP Prevent CAUTI team joined the IHI s CAUTI prevention collaborative ( aspx) and developed our own CAUTI bundle composed of 4 elements that focused on 2 basic principles: using catheters only when indicated and using e858 DAVIS et al

3 QUALITY REPORT TABLE 1 Prevent CAUTI QI Team Team Role Executive sponsor Team sponsors Team leaders Team participants aseptic technique at all points of care (Table 2). The Prevent CAUTI project used the IHI s Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) methodology to implement the CAUTI prevention bundle. 14 Collaborative Improvement Work The Prevent CAUTI team with the CHOP Simulation Education Center created an Role Within the Organization Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control Division Chief of Pediatric Urology and Director of Advanced Practice Nursing Outpatient and inpatient advanced practice providers from high utilization areas Infection prevention and control staff Physician/nursing champions on identified high-risk units Supply-chain leadership staff Nurse Researcher Clinical Nurse Specialist intensive education module for all clinicians in areas with the highest rates of urinary catheter placement and/or utilization (including ICUs, oncology unit, emergency department, operating and radiology suites) to accompany the institution-wide rollout of the CAUTI bundle. This educational module included an online tutorial and simulation training (focused on urinary catheter insertion technique) led by a qualified observer. Three of the CAUTI leaders (B.L.E., N.P., and A.T.) trained qualified observers with the use of the insertion checklist (Supplemental Fig 3) to ensure competency. Each qualified observer had to repeat the entire procedure from the beginning until all steps were performed accurately without a prompt. Approximately 200 physicians, advanced practice providers, registered nurses, and radiology technicians completed the initial training and became qualified observers. These qualified observers then validated the insertion skill by observing a return demonstration for all clinicians on high-risk units and preceptors for new nurses. The module was then rolled out to other areas where urinary catheters were in use FIGURE 1 Diagram of goals and primary and secondary drivers of pediatric CAUTIs. PEDIATRICS Volume 134, Number 3, September 2014 e859

4 TABLE 2 CHOP CAUTI Bundle 1. Place indwelling urinary catheters only when approved indication for indwelling catheter usage is met Surgical cases.4 h Continuous monitoring of urine output in critically ill patients Management of acute urinary retention and/or urinary obstruction Assistance in pressure ulcer healing for the incontinent patient Improve comfort in the end-of-life care Patients with abnormal genitourinary systems Receipt of caustic chemotherapy 2. Insert urinary catheters using aseptic technique/ insertion checklist 3. Maintain urinary catheters based on principles of asepsis and position patient and collection device to assist in urine drainage 4. Review urinary catheter necessity daily and remove promptly when indications are no longer met including the general medical and surgical units. An additional 1300 clinicians completed the online tutorial that included a training video with a detailed presentation of the appropriate insertion technique. Refresher education with return demonstration was incorporated into each high-risk unit s annual skills fair. The online tutorial continues to be part of annual mandatory education for all clinicians. After implementation of the prevention bundle, we began conducting bedside reviews of all CAUTIs to identify barriers and opportunities for improvement. These reviews involved frontline clinicians, infection preventionists (IPs), improvement advisors, and leaders of the Prevent CAUTI team. The Prevent CAUTI team used findings from these reviews to design future PDSA cycles, such as requirement for 2-person insertion, feedback of unit-specific outcome and process data, consistent use of a secural device, and appropriate emptying of the reservoir bag. Outcome Measures Our primary outcome measure was the monthly hospital-wide CAUTI rate per 1000 catheter-days. Our goal was to reduce our CAUTI rate by 50% in 1 year. Our secondary aim was to reduce total indwelling catheter days by 25% on the basis of our Prevent CAUTI leadership groups hypothesis that the duration of catheter placement was the most important risk factor in the development of CAUTI. Process Measures The primary process measure was review of catheter necessity at the time of insertion and for every day of use with the goal that $95% of indwelling catheters would meet $1 indication(s) defined by the bundle. The improvement advisor generated monthly, unitspecific, and hospital-wide compliance reports for use at unit-specific QI meetings. We designed PDSA cycles to facilitate and measure daily assessment of catheter necessity during patient care rounds. As part of our plan, daily monitoring of catheter necessity was first conducted on a small scale in 1 high-risk unit and then to all high-risk areas, including general medical and surgical units. Unit champions were identified, trained, and given the responsibility of discussing the necessity of the indwelling catheter with the patient care team on daily rounds. If no indication was identified, the patient care team discussed whether the catheter could be removed. To determine compliance with the key bundle measure, unit charge nurses assessed daily all patients on their unit for thepresence ofandanindicationfor a urinary catheter. These data were then collated to measure the impact of the PDSA cycles. Our secondary process measure evaluated compliance with the newly created catheter insertion checklist, including the recommendation that 2 care providers participate in catheter insertion, including a qualified observer who was instructed to provide immediate feedback if any steps were missed. If aseptic technique was compromised, the procedure was abandoned, a new catheter insertion kit was obtained, and then the procedure was repeated from the beginning. A commercial urinary catheter insertion kit is used that contains all materials necessary for catheter insertion other than the catheter itself (Vygon/Churchill Medical Systems, Lansdale, PA). Observational Study of CAUTI Data Sources and Collection The study team used records from the CHOP Department of Infection Prevention and Control to identify all CAUTIs and capture hospital-wide urinary catheter device days. Certified IPs performed CAUTI surveillance through daily review of microbiology laboratory results to identify possible infections with supplemental chart review to determine whether the NHSN criteria for symptomatic CAUTI were met. 15 Each unit s charge nurse or designee performed a daily count of urinary catheter device days, which the IP team then compiled. For the epidemiologic study, 2 members of the study team (A.T. and B.L.E.) gathered supplemental clinical data on patients with CAUTI from the medical record with the use of a structured data abstraction tool (Supplemental Information). Because there was not a standard location or an established person responsible for documenting the indication for the urinary catheter, we reviewed the admission notes and the progress notes 24 hours before placement through 48 hours after removal of the urinary catheter. Two people abstracted 20% of the charts to ensure interrater reliability;,5% of data elements showed discrepancies. Definition of Variables Demographic and clinical data were collected including age, gender, date of e860 DAVIS et al

5 QUALITY REPORT CAUTI, catheter insertion and removal date(s), organism(s) isolated, and hospital unit at the time of CAUTI. Additional data collected through chart review included the following: immunocompromised status, off-unit transport with catheter in place, patient location, functional or anatomic genitourinary condition, and other chronic conditions. A clinical member of the Prevent CAUTI leadership team performed chart review to identify the indication for indwelling urinary catheter (Table 2) at the time of initial catheter placement. Documentation used to evaluate catheter indication included the following: admission, progress, and nursing notes; the medication administration record for oncology patients receiving caustic chemotherapeutic agents; anesthesia records for surgical patients; and palliative care team documents and/or Do Not Resuscitate orders. In critically ill children requiring catheter placement, the team assessed whether hemodynamically unstable patients met systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria or received vasoactive medications; these patients were presumed to require monitoring of urine output every hour. Statistical Analyses We analyzed CAUTI rates before and after implementation of our prevention bundle by using Poisson regression with 95% confidence intervals. We conducted a sensitivity analysis allowing for a 1- month run-in time to account for more gradual adoption of the bundle practices. For our analysis of epidemiologic characteristics of CAUTI, we performed univariate analyses to summarize patientlevel demographic, clinical, and microbiologic characteristics. We summarized results as frequencies and percentages. Comparisons were made by using Fisher s exact test or Wilcoxon ranksum (Mann-Whitney) test, as appropriate, with a 2-tailed P value of,.05 indicating statistical significance. Analyses were performed by using Stata version 10.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). RESULTS Rates of CAUTI Before and After Implementation of a Prevention Bundle Over the 3-year period, 44 patients experienced 57 CAUTIs, including 23 CAUTIs during the 12 months preimplementation and 34 during the 24 months after implementation of the CAUTI bundle. Before implementation of the CAUTI prevention bundle, the mean monthly CAUTI rate was 5.41 infections per 1000 catheter-days. The CAUTI prevention bundle was initially implemented in high-risk units that care for.90% of patients with urinary catheters. After implementation of the CAUTI prevention bundle, the mean monthly CAUTI rate was 2.49 infections per 1000 catheter-days (Fig 2). Adherence to the key process measure, indication for a urinary catheter, was not measured before implementation of the bundle but rapidly rose to.90%; ongoing assessments verify that this high level of compliance has persisted (data not shown). The most common indications for urinary catheters were for monitoring of hemodynamic status (50%) and managing urinary retention/obstruction (38%). The catheter utilization ratio on high-risk units remained stable at 0.12 after implementation of the CAUTI prevention bundle. Analysis by Poisson regression indicated that the intervention was associated with a50%reductionintherateofcauti(95% confidence interval: to 20.12; P =.02). We performed a sensitivity analysis to account for more gradual adoption of the bundle practices and included a 1- month lag into our model; this analysis confirmed that our intervention was associated with a similar reduction in CAUTIs (52% reduction; P,.001). The CAUTI prevention bundle was subsequently rolled out to all units that care for patients with urinary catheters. We did not observe any further reductions in CAUTIs associated with this second wave of implementation. Epidemiology of CAUTI Most of the 44 patients who experienced a CAUTI were female (n = 33, 75%) with a median age of 10.3 years (interquartile range: ) at time of infection (Table 3). Five patients were.18 years at the time of CAUTI; the eldest patient was 42 years old, had multiple congenital anomalies, and was FIGURE 2 Monthly CAUTI rates, July 2009 through June Upper control limit set at 3 s: red lines; mean CAUTI rate: green lines. Lower control limits were below zero for both pre- and postintervention periods. PEDIATRICS Volume 134, Number 3, September 2014 e861

6 chronically hospitalized with ventilator dependency. The majority of patients were receiving care in the pediatric or cardiac ICU at the time of CAUTI onset (n = 20 [45%] and n = 11 [25%], respectively). Nearly all patients had at least 1 chronic condition. Twenty-two (50%) patients had $1 recognized risk factor(s) for CAUTI, including an underlying genitourinary condition (n = 12, 27%), an immunocompromising condition (n = 5, 11%), and history of intermittent catheterization at home (n = 6, 13%). Patients with CAUTI before, compared with those after, implementation of the prevention bundle were more likely to have a history of intermittent catheterization at home (P =.008). Microbiology of CAUTI The majority of CAUTIs were caused by Enterobacteriaceae spp (n = 24, 55%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n = 11, 25%) (data not shown). The remaining infections were due to yeast (n =5, 11%), Enterococcus spp (n = 3, 7%), and Lactobacillus spp (n = 1, 2%). Nearly all CAUTIs were due to a single organism (n = 42, 95%). There were no observed differences in the spectrum of organisms before versus after the intervention (data not shown). DISCUSSION We report the changing rates of pediatric CAUTI before and after implementation of a prevention bundle and TABLE 3 Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric Patients With CAUTI, Characteristic Prebundle Postbundle P Patients, n (%) 21 (48) 23 (52) Female gender, n (%) 16 (76) 17 (74).99 Median age y, (IQR) 9.5 ( ) 13.1 ( ).55 Patient unit, n (%).63 Cardiac ICU 4 (19) 7 (30) Hematology-oncology 0 3 (13) Medical-surgical 3 (14) 2 (9) NICU 3 (14) 2 (9) PICU 11 (52) 9 (39) Chronic comorbid conditions, n (%) Neuromuscular 8 (38) 8 (24).99 Cardiovascular 9 (43) 11 (33).77 Respiratory 14 (67) 16 (70).99 Renal 8 (38) 7 (30).75 Gastrointestinal 8 (38) 7 (30).75 Hematologic or immunologic 2 (10) 3 (13).99 Metabolic 1 (5) 2 (9).99 Other congenital or genetic defect 3 (14) 6 (26).46 Malignancy 3 (14) 5 (22).70 None 0 1 (0.04).99 Genitourinary condition, n (%).58 Anatomic 4 (19) 4 (17) Functional 3 (14) 1 (4) None 14 (67) 18 (78) CAUTI risk factors a Immunocompromised 3 (14) 2 (9).66 Pregnancy 0 1 (4).99 Recent transfer with catheter b 2 (10) 1 (4).60 Intermittent catheterization at home 6 (29) Other c 1 (5) 0.48 None 8 (38) 14 (61).23 N = 44. IQR, interquartile range. a Prebundle there were 6 patients with.1 risk factor (including genitourinary condition as a risk factor). Postbundle there with no patients with.1 risk factor. b Transferred off home unit with urinary catheter in place,72 h before CAUTI onset. c Other risk factors included catheter placed at outside hospital before admission. describe the epidemiology of CAUTI in a tertiary care children s hospital. We found that hospitalized children with a urinary catheter had a substantial risk of CAUTI before our intervention. A recent report from the CDC s NHSN revealed that in 2011 the pooled means of CAUTI rates were similar for adult ICUs, 2 which is consistent with our observation that.80% of CAUTIs occurred in critically ill patients. Our findings also suggest that female patients are more likely than male patients to acquire a CAUTI and chronic conditions were prevalent among patients who developed CAUTI. Approximately one-third of patients who developed a CAUTI had either an anatomic or a functional abnormality of their genitourinary tract. Despite multiple previous reports of successful CAUTI prevention QI projects directed at adult patients, 16,17 little is known about the ability of these evidence-based bundles to prevent CAUTI in hospitalized children. A recent reportfromauschildren s hospitaldescribed a nonsignificant reduction in the hospital-wide rate of CAUTIs after implementation of a comprehensive patient safety program designed to eliminate preventable harm. 10 A Spanish PICU reported a reduction in CAUTIs associated with implementation of a nosocomial infection prevention bundle, although the CAUTI rates were markedly elevated in this unit (23.3 infections per 1000 urinary catheterdays) before implementation. 11 Our bundle, which focused on minimizing the inappropriate use of urinary catheters and improving adherence to aseptic technique when placing or manipulating a catheter, relied on 2 of the most common elements of adult CAUTI prevention bundles, consistent with our assumption that the pathogenesis of adult and pediatric CAUTI is similar. However, unlike reports in adults, 18 we did not note a marked reduction in device utilization with the e862 DAVIS et al

7 QUALITY REPORT implementation of our bundle. This difference is consistent with our observation that 90% of our patients had a recognized indication for urinary catheter. Because we did not observe a marked reduction in the utilization of urinary catheters, we hypothesize that improved adherence to aseptic technique, both at the time of catheter placement and during subsequent use, may have played the major role in CAUTI prevention. However, we do not have process data that describe the frequency of breaks in aseptic technique before and after our intervention. On the basis of success achieved by adult CAUTIpreventionefforts, 16,17 we now aim to eliminate CAUTI in our patient population. To accomplish this goal, we are focused on sustaining the improvements attained by this work in insertion and routine care of patients with urinary catheters while expanding the components of our maintenance bundle. To prevent diminished compliance with CAUTI prevention practices, we continue to feedback performance data from our insertion checklist. Additionally, unit leaders conduct point prevalence surveys to assess compliance with maintenance practices related to urinary catheters and other indwelling medical devices. New interventions designed by our Prevent CAUTI working group focus on appropriate handling of the urinary reservoir bag during patient transport and movement. This study has several limitations. First, we were unable to determine whether the interventions introduced actually caused the observed reduction in CAUTI rates or if this improvement was related to enhanced attention paid to the issue or another unmeasured factor. As a retrospective study, it is subject to misclassification bias. Although the comprehensive nature of CAUTI surveillance performed at our hospital likely minimized this bias, others have noted that there can be significant variation in the application of surveillance definitions for CAUTI and other health care associated infections. 19 Additionally, this report describes the experience of a single, large, tertiary care freestanding children s hospital and the findings may not be generalizable to all pediatric settings. Because frontline clinicians were responsible for collecting process measures, such as adherence to the insertion bundle, these data were potentially biased by the Hawthorne effect. We did not assess the compliance with every individual component of the insertion or maintenance bundles and therefore were unable to identify all potential barriers to full implementation. We did not attempt to validate the accuracy of data collection on either process measures or urinary catheterdays, both measures that were collected by unit staff and thus subject to bias. Similarly, because our CAUTI prevention interventions were simultaneously introduced as a single bundle, we were unable to determine the relative contribution of individual activities to CAUTI prevention. Finally, we did not capture costs associated with this work. CONCLUSIONS Hospitalized children with urinary catheters have a significant risk of developing a CAUTI. We noted a significant reduction in CAUTIs associated with a multidisciplinary, hospital-wide QI initiative that developed and implemented a pediatric CAUTI prevention bundle. Future work is needed to assess the capacity to implement a similar CAUTI prevention bundle in other pediatric settings and to determine whether implementation is consistently associated with reduced pediatric CAUTI. 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9 Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: A Quality-Improvement Initiative Katherine Finn Davis, Ann M. Colebaugh, Benjamin L. Eithun, Sarah B. Klieger, Dennis J. Meredith, Natalie Plachter, Julia Shaklee Sammons, Allison Thompson and Susan E. Coffin Pediatrics 2014;134;e857 DOI: /peds originally published online August 11, 2014; Updated Information & Services References Subspecialty Collections Permissions & Licensing Reprints including high resolution figures, can be found at: This article cites 14 articles, 1 of which you can access for free at: This article, along with others on similar topics, appears in the following collection(s): Administration/Practice Management e_management_sub Quality Improvement sub Information about reproducing this article in parts (figures, tables) or in its entirety can be found online at: Information about ordering reprints can be found online:

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